Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual budget resolution, which the House and Senate assumed as a major responsibility in 1974, amounts to a statement of principle setting forth what Congress decides should be the Government spending plans for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 . The Senate has passed its own budget resolution to spend $498.9 billion, and late last week members of the two chambers began working out a compromise that will be sent to President Carter early this week. Whatever the exact total finally is - and many economists believe it will be too high and burdened with too large a deficit - it will...
...parents to keep the kids from dragging them into court on similarly vague grounds? Henry Foster, professor emeritus at New York University Law School, offers cold comfort to mothers and fathers: "It used to be that the King, parent, hospital and so forth could do no wrong. This is changing...
Many of the juiciest conclusions of the book have been, as it were, leaked to the world by Gail Sheehy, author of the best-selling Passages, which set forth the basic thesis enunciated at greater length and in more detail here: that all people go through an age-linked series of developmental stages in adult life, each with its specific psychological and social tasks and each the necessary base on which to begin the next phase of adult development...
...small colony of new tents, down sleeping bags and gas stoves, a lone voice lilted to one tired guitar, singing, "Tenting Tonight." Eastern Mountain Sports must be celebrating tonight, I thought. I read somewhere that wherever, and whenever, a strong wave of student activism surges forth, camping stores crop up like picnic ants at a State Fair...
Carter has hurt himself badly by shifting back and forth between conflicting positions. But it is hard to conclude that this represents only inexperience and uncertainty. It also reflects an earnest desire to reconcile opposites. Opinion polls show dramatic losses for Carter among the usual Democratic constituencies-labor, liberals, blacks -and in large measure these losses must be due to his economic program. Despite the serious doubts about the old-fashioned Democratic remedies, these constituencies still by and large want bigger spending and a more, rather than less, egalitarian thrust-or at least they want the substitutes and alternatives...